My company is looking at an existing steel structure to determine if it is capable of handling increased loading due to the heavier equipment being installed on the operating deck.
The steel structure was originally designed and constructed in the 70s using A36 steel, ASD design to the 7th...
My company requested a load drop analysis on a reinforced concrete slab to check a 30" pipe 7' below grade for failure. The vendor gives us a report that the pipe will fail. The concrete is subjected to punching shear failure. When I look at the calculation, I notice they do not take into...
I'm working on modifying an existing overhead crane. This crane is not a traditional design, it is a derrick style crane. In looking at the seismic analysis, the original design loads were quite low. We are going to try to qualify this crane for the higher seismic loading criteria, and I'm...
I'm working on modifying an existing overhead crane. This crane is not a traditional design, it is a derrick style crane. In looking at the seismic analysis, the original design loads were quite low. We are going to try to qualify this crane for the higher seismic loading criteria, and I'm...
Hi, thanks for your inputs in advance.
I am working on modifying a crane that was orignally designed to EOCI Specification 61.
Since EOCI has been replaced by CMAA, I am wondering what the major differences between the code is so that I can provide reconciliation justification before moving...
